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"Hank Iba decided he wouldn't play my team anymore. He told me that if he tried to get his team ready to play me, it would upset his team the rest of the season." Gene Johnson, WU Basketball coach, 1928-1933.
Texas will be fine. Playing all freshmen and sophmores, beat North Carolina earlier this week, was in the game at Michigan St most of the game, all while playing without their pre-season sophmore All-Big XII PG until sometime in February. They will be a load next year in the KC tourney.
Mark Fox at Georgia. Looking like 3 losing seasons in 4 years.
Jay Wright at Villenova. 12 loses 2 years ago, 19 last year and some bad losses this year. C7 may keep him safe for now.
Kevin O'Neil @ USC but probably no one cares.
I'm sure Fox got paid well to leave Nevada. I would have thought he would have done better in the SEC, but has Georgia ever been good?
His Nevada teams were salty, Georgia fans should give him time.
Georgia beat the Shocks in the 1st round of the NCAAs back in '85, so if by "good" you mean good enough to beat the Shocks, then 28 years ago they were pretty decent.
Programs like Georgia, Auburn, Northwestern, Texas Tech, et. al, are prime examples why some of these schools involved in the conference shuffles should be careful what they ask for. These hypothetical leagues I see mentioned here and elsewhere that would be "basketball powers", including the proposed new Catholic/private league are going to end up with lower-tier teams, some of them perennial bottom-dwellers. Yes, they'll get their fair share of bids but roughly half the teams are going to lose half or more of their league games and be left out.
In five years, should they bolt, Creighton could be fighting for an NIT bid, at best. And I'd be lying if I wasn't somewhat worried about that happening to us if WSU were somehow to land a spot in the MWC.
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